It's not about fatigue or danger or age and endurance, writes Sr. Joan Chittister. It's about doing what we each need to do to help one another profit the whole country, the whole globe.
Despite years of intermittent warfare between the Palestinians and Israel, we have hoped that simple decency, public morality, honest governments and personal conscience would sweep down, writes Joan Chittister.
During the 2022 floods in Pakistan, we Presentation Sisters listened to the grief of the people and also heard about their efforts to survive. The resilience of the people was truly amazing.
As Americans waste our civil duties, the question has become whether the country itself has simply collapsed any and all moral standards. Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister asks: Who tricked us out of ourselves?
Scripture for Life: Concerns about who is in and who is out are as old as nature. As Isaiah, Jesus and Paul knew well, it's hard to free people from their ethnocentrism — the pride being part of an exclusive pack.
Life, the ancients knew, all depends on our willingness to collaborate, to do the things together that are important for us all. That's something we need to remember in this time of agitation and uncertainty.
Rather than spend millions on the Eucharistic Revival, the US bishops should be responding to eucharistic and ministerial scarcity, says columnist Sr. Christine Schenk.